imagine a monarchy. with a king. then imagine Jeremiah in your kingdom. Remember, you're ringed with state-sponsored prophets and priests who support your national pride and political agenda...
imagine messengers coming from Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, Sidon... imagine the important communiques he's sending with them, hoping through the negotiation of some sort of alliance that he might be able to fend off the onslaught of Babylonian aggression that is swallowing up the whole world...
now imagine this troublemaker, Jeremiah, telling them this stuff...
and telling the king this stuff...
what level of pest was he?
treason/traitor?
how did those messengers see the king after Jeremiah got to them? What did the other priests and prophets think? What credibility test did Jeremiah establish? how do you think they reacted? (read next chapter)
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